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RILM
RILM is a music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. There are currently over 730,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Coverage of Conference Proceedings goes back to 1835.
Academic Search Ultimate
Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. Includes full-text access to the journal Science, 1990 - present.
JSTOR
Full text of scholarly journals in many subjects, especially the humanities and social sciences. Generally does not include recent issues.
Project MUSE
Scholarly articles in many subjects, especially the humanities and social sciences.
Oxford Music Online
Comprehensive encyclopedia of Western European art music (“classical music”), with some coverage of jazz, non-European, and folk music. Also includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music and Oxford Companion to Music. Previously known as Grove Music Online.